A new children’s TV show which is tipped to be as big as the likes of Teletubbies and In The Night Garden will have a touch of Sheffield in it when it airs for the first time next month.

Moon and Me, the latest creation from award-winning writer and producer Andrew Davenport, will be screened on CBeebies from February 4 – and is set to become the latest in a long line of children’s TV smash hits.

And the format of the series was based on University of Sheffield studies, Mr Davenport has revealed.

Pepi Nana, star of new CBeebies show Moon and Me

Ahead of the show’s launch – which will introduce youngsters to character such as Pepi Nana, Moon Baby, Little Nana, Lambkin, Colly Wobble, Mr Onion, Sleepy Dibillo and Lily Plant, he said that he worked with researchers at the university to help study how children play when coming up with the format for the show.

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'By deliberately eschewing any form of CGI in favour of filming with beautifully-realised real objects, Moon and Me celebrates children's imaginative play with "real stuff", - ironically perhaps - play that happens away from screens.'

Davenport's most beloved success, Teletubbies, first aired in 1997 and has since been viewed by an estimated one billion children across 120 countries.

In The Night Garden - a colourful live-action puppet show which features the adventures of Iggle Piggle and his friends - aired between 2007 and 2009.

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